Posted on 09/10/2002 8:52:08 AM PDT by mikenola
It depends on what the definition of "respect" is.
There's always a "but".
Even within the Arabic Sunni Moslem Arabs customs tend to differ depending on whether the individual is a follower of the fundamentalist Wahhabis or the more secular majority. While I'd be the last to defend Islam as a "religion of peace," this sort of stuff is simply too oversimplifying and broad-brush to be useful to really understanding the peoples in question.
Yes, but as the author of the article didn't state.
*Arab culture is the most dominating, single influence in the Islamic world.*
There are a lot of books in Arabic. Literally there are millions. Just like in English there are Occult books which call for sodomy, and rape, and human sacrifice. Of course there is the Koran, and then there are the Hadiths of the Prophet Mohamet, and then there are untold hundreds of books written as poetic fiction attributed to the myth of the Prophet.
It is not surprising that we are calling for a Religious Intifada Against Islam. The world has become baren spiritually. For example, Ritual Abuse by catholic priests or Masonic Abuse is based on the very same Islamic idealogical shit that says that its O.K. for a man to have sexual pleasure with children. Whats more is that these religious herecies have been imbedded in the doctrine of the world's religions since their inception.
The Crusades of the 14th century led to the European Rennaisance. In most Islamic countries women are not permitted to read the Koran. Men are forbidden to touch it without going through the proper cermonial ablutions. It is the same scenario of Pre-Martin Luther-Christendom. In that time the Bible was so "sacred" that there was only the Latin, which could only be viewed on the post in the church. When the Americans smuggled Bibles into the Americas they were hunted down by the British. Benjamin Franklin describes how they hid the Bible in his house by nailing it to the underside of a stool. In order to read the book they would turn the whole stool upside down.
In the Arab world, Prophet Mohamet is not just the founder of the religion, but he is also the central figure of most folk tales.
Small persecuted groups in the Arab world are calling for democracy. They who live under the tyranny of the Mullahs, the Ayatollahs, and the Shiek's have very little power. A terrorist attack against the United States is a terrorist attack against any free-thinking democracy movement in the Arab World. It is Osama's and Hussein's way of saying to the Arab people, there is your American Freedom, and poof there your dreams for democracy are like a puff of smoke.
It is good that American press will point to the inhuman punishments that go on there. The Moslem people will not do it. They will not speak about it because it is an infraction called shirk. The Prophet once ordered a man to be stoned to death because he boasted about commiting adultry. To not speak of these things is to follow Arab culture. It is in the line of wearing a Hijab, and washing your hands before you eat. It is also in the way of not disturbing the peace.
There is much more going on in this war then most of us are aware of. If you read my post, then you like to read. Do a Google search and type Islam and Democracy in the window. where's my...
It occured to me today that I am greatful to be an American, because despite all of our terrible ways we continue to expect a higher set of standards out of ourselves, no matter what others say or do to us.
As far as the caption is concerned, there may be some inacuracies in the translation from $#!t-bag Palestinian to English, is the definition of "candy".
That the woman is doing that shrilly thing with her tongue and dancing is clear.
BUMP.
Throughout history, jewels have been used as high-denomination currency, as well as decoration. Looking at it in that sense, children could be considered "high-value assets".
Expending a high-value asset in furtherance of Jihad, can be considered a religious contribution
A daughter who is no longer a virgin has little marketable value as marriage-material, and so may be recycled. If the act of recycling results in an increase in the family's reputation for "piety", then the expenditure is profitable, in their eyes
Probably the arabic text said "sweets", meaning pastries made with lots of honey (which are popular in Middle-eastern cultures) and it got translated as "candy" (which to Americans means stuff like chocolate and lollipops)
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